The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-22
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

8 PHILADELPHIA North Americans: After tax
ing off my winter clothing, says DR.. Hammond
OF New York, II wouldn't appear on the street
for WHILE Not Immediately, we hope. GER
family
THE most uncommon names in English are
those which begin with X. There are mono in
the New Y x directory. Philadelphia, however,
presents. = names of Xaviers, Xander and
Aandry.
THE handsome villa and grounds known as
Eden Hill. Ballycrack. have been presented to
Mrs Michael Davtt by her husbands political
admirers She will change its name to Land
league Cottage.
MR. RUSSELL Cox, Of Holderness, n. H., who
is ninety years of age, is suffering from
attack of whoopng cough His mother, who
died recently. had the whooping cough when she
was 101 years of age.
ANTHONY BARRIos son Of the late President
OF Guatemala, is student of West Point, and
young Zaraa, of the man who overthrow
and caused the death of President Barrios, is
also at West Point, and is his classmate
NINE. NILSSON was careful to provide in her
recent marriage, that she should retain full con-
troll of her own property. which is estimated to
be worth over 81, 600. Nilsson had one
spendthrift husband, and can be excused for rot
wanting a second.
N. TAME lives the life of hermit, almost
beneath the shadow of st. Sulpice, and seldom
sees human countenance outside his own
house. One of the few persons be visits is the
Princess Mathilde Bonaparte at her Sunday
evening receptions
PHILADELPHIA Call: eve don't see you very
often at the club, Charley" mo; the fact is,
I'm engaged, and can't call an evening my own
Going to leave the club, thenr' 60 no. shall
be married in April, and then you may look for
me at least three times a week.
THE author of penny cookbook in England
calls upon people to do honor to the Queen In
this Jubilee year "by cooking we'll and econom-
ically," and thus help ito lift up the heavy
weight of depression that lies on the country by
vigorous economy in household matters
LORD TENNYsoS's jubilee ode is to be set to
music by DR.. Villiers Stanford, of Cambridge,
and part of it is to be sung before the Queen
either at the opening Of the palace in the East
End of London or when her Majesty lays the
foundation stone of the Imperial Institute.
PITTsBURG Bulletin Lily secretary of the
cooking class Now. girls. we've learned nine
cakes, two kinds of angel food and seven ples
What nexs9 Susie (eneaged) Dicks father
( says. / must learn to bake bread. Indignant
chorus-Breadl Absurd! What are bakers for?
Miss E. a. ODER, late of the Boston Ideals"
has gone into another branch of trade. She has
engineered syndicate which has bought big
block of Washington suburban property for
$7S000 and Effie carried the whole thing through,
and the property was made over to her on Sat-.
urday.
| visiting Austria. whence he will proceed to
Servia and Roumania Before leaving Paris
the Prince gave rich present to the Elmo
graphical Museum Of the Trocadero, containing
precious collection of objects, among them the
scepter of Queen Pomare.
LORD LANsDowNE, Governor general of Can
ada, receives salary of $50, 900 year, besides
| free quarters and numerous perquisites. Yet he
is extremely mercenary, demanding every dol
| lar due him, and the entertainments at the Gov
| eminent House bear evidence of the strlctest
| economy IN every matter OF detail.
| AMERICAN Magazine: One day in the reading
class they came across the word magnet"
| The teacher asked how many knew what a mag
| net was. All the class motionless for
moment, and then one little girl put up her
| hand. II don't know said the little girl ''as
| know what it is, but have seen EN- at homo in
mothers cheese"
| PRINCE VICTOR NAPOLEON, exiled, now re-
siding in Brussels holds weekly receptions
| Among his regular visitors are number Of the
/ Bonapartist members of the Paris Chamber of
Deputies, who make weekly pilgrimage to
| Belgium to pay their respects to the represent
alive of tho house of Napoleon and to try to boil
| ster up its lost cause"
THE writers the London Times are the
hghest-pad journalists in Europe The special
correspondents in the various social capitals are
| given establishments that entisle them to a foot
ing of equality with the diplomatic represent
| atives. In Rome the Times has only recently
| finished the building of handsome house for
| the exclusive and comfort Of its correspond
| ent at that point.
MIR BR1sTowE, the president Of the Cam bridge
Boat Club, in England, during the period of
training allowed his crew diet that would have
Mortified his predecessors of twenty years ago.
Fish, entrees. puddings and dessert were all per-
| mitted, and the Lancet. which reports the fact
describes it as a rational plan of feeding and de-
clares the more varied the food the better the
health of the individual.
In small town out West an ex-county Judge
| is cashier Of the bank. 1.-THE check is all right
sir" he said to stranger, ''but the evidence you
offer in Identifying yourself the person to
whose order it is drawn is scarcely sufficient
"I've known you to hang man on less evidence
judge was the strangers response. "Quite
likely" replied the exJudge, "but when it comes
to letting go of cold cash we have to be careful
A. D. WYMAN, formerly United States Treas
urer, is president of bank in Omaha. where S
P. Rounds. exPublic Printer. is publishing
paper. Rounds was printers devil' in the Office
of Wyman's father. who editor and pub
Usher in Madison. Wis. and the two boy.
learned the printers trade together Rounds
was engaged in business for some time in Chica
60 and when he arrived in Washington as Pub
lie Printer Mr. Wyman was there as Treasurer
By singular coincidence they have come to
gether IN Omaha.
THERE is mighty bother" says Londo,
Truth, 'about the Queens birthday. It wa
originally settled that should be officially KEEP
on Saturday, May 81. but when this arrange
ment was proposed to the Queen she objected t.
having the celebration before tho proper day
Accordingly. the following Saturday, the 18th
was hurriedly su INSTITUTED nobody memberin.
that this day happens to be the Saturday befor
Whitmonday. inconvenient fixture a
could possibly have been made. 1t has now bee
decided that the celebration shall take place Oh
Tuesday, the 24tn-"
COMMENT AND OPINION
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